1917–1918 YEARS
23669
TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVNARKHOZ
Vyshny Volochyok*
December 25, 1918

Military warehouses are at the disposal of the military authorities. Military property shall be transferred to the account of the military department; all warehouses shall be unsealed; property shall be distributed among the departments; accounting shall be conducted without disrupting current operations.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

14543
FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
DECEMBER 29, 1918
ON A REPORT BY I. V. STALIN 
CONCERNING FOOD PRODUCTS 
IN THE FRONT-LINE ZONE

Commission Komprod and the Supreme Council of the National Economy to send specially designated persons to Ukraine and all other territories liberated from occupation, in addition to those already sent, in order to agree with the commission of comrade Krasin to extract from there all raw materials and all finished products.

* The telegram is a response to the following inquiry from the chairman of the Vyshnevolutsk district sovnarkhoz: "Pursuant to a resolution of the Council of Defense, military property warehouses have been sealed; detailed inventories are being urgently compiled. Due to the spread of typhus in the city and district, assuming threatening proportions, the presidium of the sovnarkhoz authorized the transfer of hospital property to the Health Department. Assuming great responsibility, we petition for your sanction."

LENIN COLLECTION
IN RESPONSE TO I. V. STALIN'S INQUIRY 
CONCERNING THE URBAKH–ASTRAKHAN RAILWAY LINE

Commission the Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to ascertain from the Supreme Commander what measures are being taken by him to prevent an interruption on the Urbakh–Astrakhan railway line in the Vladimrovka district, from the side of Tsatsa occupied by the enemy.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from Protocol No. 9 of the session of the Council of Defense, December 29, 1918.

23684
TELEPHONOGRAM TO ALL SOVIETS 
LOCATED ALONG RAILROAD LINES
December 30, 1918

In addition to the telephonogram of December 23. In view of the continuing natural disaster that has befallen the Republic—a snow cyclone—in order to restore disrupted train traffic, it is proposed, for the payment of exceptionally difficult working conditions for certain categories of railroad workers, especially locomotive crews, to introduce temporarily supplementary compensation, based on the established norm of mileage for these categories of labor, guided by mileage figures from previous years. The People's Commissar of Transportation provides detailed instructions concerning the nature of the supplementary compensation being introduced hereby.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.